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• The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Irritation, Gains, Obedience

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• The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strong, Moving, Eye

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moments

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• For ever and ever, we say when we are young, or in our prayers. Twice, we say it. Old One, do we not? For ever and ever ... so that a thing may be for ever, a life or a love or a quest, and yet begin again, and be for ever just as before. And any ending that may seem to come is not truly an ending, but an illusion. For Time does not die, Time has neither beginning nor end, and so nothing can end or die that has once had a place in Time.

  Susan Cooper

  Prayer, Doe, May

  Susan Cooper (2010). “Silver on the Tree”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk... may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.

  Jon Krakauer

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Sep 30, 2011

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• The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Uncles, Lying, Hero

  "The Last Unicorn". Book by Peter S. Beagle, 1968.

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• Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

  Eugene O'Neill

  Space, Joy, Secret

  Eugene O'Neill (1996). “Beyond the Horizon”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

  John Oliver

  Character, People, Cartoon

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• I've always been on a quest to use science in an artful way.

  Greg Graffin

  Use, Way

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Heart, Perfect, Holy Grail

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• The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.

  Cat Stevens

  Life, Spiritual, Song

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• In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

  Pope Francis

  Mets, Certainty, Persons

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.97, A&C Black

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• With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

  Justin Sane

  Men, President, Drones

  "Anti-flag's general strike is a soundtrack for occupied America" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

  William Gibson

  Media, Tiny, Firsts

  "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

  Robert Frost

  May, Seems, Bounds

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.262, Everyman's Library

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• It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sea, Two, Sailing

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Class, People

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides. Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?" It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes." I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo. Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?

  James A. Owen

  Mean, Adversity, Thinking

  James A. Owen (2010). “The Indigo King”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vulgar, Deceived, Versions

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Most vagabonds i knowed don't ever want to find the culprit that remains the object of their long relentless quest. The obsession's in the chasing and not the apprehending, the pursuit you see and never the arrest" - Tom Waits "Foreign Affairs

  Tom Waits

  Long, Waiting, Vagabonds

  Tom Waits (2007). “The Early Years: The Lyrics of Tom Waits 1971-1983”, Ecco

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• She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!

  Lord Byron

  Humility, Eye, Voice

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

  Ringo Starr

  Long, Finding Yourself, Feels

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• It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Plato, Philosophical, Reading

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• Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Effort, Consistency

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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